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German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However …
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The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may …
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The regulation that caps executives' variable compensation, as part of the Capital Requirements Directive IV of 2013, likely affected executive turnover, compensation design, and risk-taking in EU banking. The current study identifies significantly higher average turnover rates but also finds...
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This study investigates if the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) distorted price competition in U.S. banking. Political indicators reveal bailout expectations after 2009, manifested as beliefs about the predicted probability of receiving equity support relative to failing during the TARP...
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The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we …
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German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous … matter of debate. In this paper we suggest a taxonomy as how to evaluate post-merger performance on the basis of cost … CE levels above the average of non-merging banks. Second, banks must exhibit CE changes between merger and evaluation …
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We use granular project-level information for the largest regional economic development program in German history to study whether government subsidies to firms affect the quantity and quality of bank lending. We combine the universe of recipient firms under the Improvement of Regional Economic...
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Social capital theory predicts individuals establish social ties based on homophily, i.e., affinities for similar others. We exploit a unique sample to analyze how similarities and social ties affect career outcomes in banking based on age, education, gender, and employment history to examine if...
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In this paper, we show the importance of accounting for heterogeneity among sample firms in stochastic frontier analysis. For a fairly homogenous sample of German savings and cooperative banks, we analyze how alternative theoretical assumptions regarding the nature of heterogeneity can be...
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